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Clint Edds and Billy Maher, biologists from the Lousiana Department of Fish and Wildlife, complete a daily oil survey of coastal and marshland surrounding Grand Isle, LA. The area was one of the first impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill and continues to be impacted as oil washes ashore daily. ...Photographs from Grand Isle and surrounding areas impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The spill is estimated to be gushing 35,000 to 60,000 barells of oil into the ocean per...more »

Clint Edds and Billy Maher, biologists from the Lousiana Department of Fish and Wildlife, complete a daily oil survey of coastal and marshland surrounding Grand Isle, LA. The area was one of the first impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill and continues to be impacted as oil washes ashore daily. ...Photographs from Grand Isle and surrounding areas impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The spill is estimated to be gushing 35,000 to 60,000 barells of oil into the ocean per day. Difficulties installing monitoring devices at the source have made this number difficult to clearly ascertain. The spill is among the world's worst.« less